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The DX Today Podcast: Real Insights About AI and Digital Transformation Tired of AI hype and transformation snake oil? This isn't another sales pitch disguised as expertise. Join a 30+ year tech veteran and Chief AI Officer who's built $1.2 billion in real solutions—and has the battle scars to prove it. No vendor agenda. No sponsored content. Just unfiltered insights about what actually works in AI and digital transformation, what spectacularly fails, and why most "expert" advice misses the mark. If you're looking for honest perspectives from someone who's been in the trenches since before "digital transformation" was a buzzword, you've found your show. Real problems, real solutions, real talk. For executives, practitioners, and anyone who wants the truth about technology without the sales pitch.

  1. 14h ago

    MCP Goes Stateless: The Biggest Agent Protocol Rewrite Yet and What It Breaks - July 29, 2026

    MCP Goes Stateless: The Biggest Agent Protocol Rewrite Yet and What It Breaks The Model Context Protocol just shipped the largest specification change in its history, and it now lives under the neutral stewardship of the Agentic AI Foundation rather than any single vendor. Chris and Laura dig into why the session model was torn out, how application state moved into explicit handles the model can actually see, and why Roots, Sampling, and Logging were put on a twelve month deprecation clock. They also cover the new enterprise authorization rules that determine whether agent infrastructure ever clears a corporate security review. Hosted by Chris and Laura. The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the most consequential stories in the AI ecosystem. #AI #MCP #AgenticAI #OpenStandards #TechNews

  2. 15h ago

    DX Today AI Daily Brief - Wednesday, July 29, 2026

    DX Today AI Daily Brief - Wednesday, July 29, 2026 Meta and BlackRock form a fourteen billion dollar joint venture for a one gigawatt AI data center campus in El Paso, while more than eleven hundred employees across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and Microsoft sign an open letter urging Washington to back an international mechanism for pacing frontier AI. The Trump administration bans imports of new foreign made humanoid and quadruped robots, and Microsoft unveils MAI Cyber One Flash, its first cybersecurity model, alongside the agentic Project Perception platform. Anthropic reports that Claude Mythos derived a practical key recovery attack on the post quantum HAWK 256 signature scheme, Hugging Face publishes a forensic timeline reconstructing roughly seventeen thousand six hundred actions from the OpenAI agent intrusion, and OpenAI open sources its Codex Security CLI. SK Hynix results disappoint as Korean chip stocks slide a second day, Spur Intelligence raises two hundred million dollars from Insight Partners for bot detection, the Allen Institute for AI launches the OlmoEarth geospatial platform, Runlayer sues Rippling over its Model Context Protocol gateway, and Google expands its AI Futures Fund into Japan with KDDI. DX Today - Your daily AI news briefing, delivered every morning. #AINews #ArtificialIntelligence #AISecurity #AIInfrastructure #DXToday

  3. 1d ago

    Brussels Opens Android: The EU's Binding Order to Give Rival AI Assistants the Access Google Reserved for Gemini - July 28, 2026

    Brussels Opens Android: The EU's Binding Order to Give Rival AI Assistants the Access Google Reserved for Gemini On July 16, 2026 the European Commission issued two binding specification decisions to Google under the Digital Markets Act. The first forces Android to give competing AI assistants the same system level access Gemini enjoys today, covering voice invocation, screen and app context, cross app actions, and background execution. The second requires Google to share the search data it uses to optimise its own results with rival search engines and, for the first time, with AI chatbots that offer search functionality. Chris and Laura dig into the four capability layers being pried open, the January 2027 and August 2027 compliance clocks, Google's privacy and security objections, and why the collision with Europe's own Cyber Resilience Act may be the most interesting fight of all. Hosted by Chris and Laura. The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the most consequential stories in the AI ecosystem. #AI #DigitalMarketsAct #Android #AIRegulation #TechPolicy

  4. 1d ago

    DX Today AI Daily Brief - Tuesday, July 28, 2026

    DX Today AI Daily Brief - Tuesday, July 28, 2026 Nvidia is in talks to guarantee roughly $250 billion in financing behind OpenAI's proposed 10-gigawatt data center campus in Piketon, Ohio, and separately disclosed a substantial investment in Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence. Microsoft launched Project Perception and the MAI-Cyber-1-Flash model, putting red, blue and green security agents into a single coordinated workflow, while Nvidia, Microsoft, Adobe, CrowdStrike, Dell Technologies and Hugging Face formed the Open Secure AI Alliance in the wake of the first autonomous agent cyberattack. OpenAI nearly doubled its federal lobbying spending to a record $2.22 million. Enigma emerged from stealth with a $71 million seed round and a fleet of interactive robots controllable from a browser. Celeris released Celeris-1, a diffusion-based language model with 157-millisecond median latency. Prentis, co-founded by Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus, is raising $100 million at a $1 billion valuation for computer-use models. Siemens expanded its Nvidia partnership for self-verifying chip design agents, Dynatrace shipped autonomous SRE agents and a no-code agent builder, Cognizant reached the top tier of Anthropic's Claude Partner Network, and Bank of Baroda is investigating a breach exposing more than 700 gigabytes of records. DX Today - Your daily AI news briefing, delivered every morning. #AINews #ArtificialIntelligence #AISecurity #AIInfrastructure #DXToday

  5. 2d ago

    Nvidia's $250 Billion Backstop: Circular Financing, a Uranium Site in Ohio, and the Bill for a 10 Gigawatt Bet - July 27, 2026

    Nvidia's $250 Billion Backstop: Circular Financing, a Uranium Site in Ohio, and the Bill for a 10 Gigawatt Bet The Wall Street Journal reported that Nvidia is in talks to guarantee roughly $250 billion in financing for OpenAI's 10 gigawatt data center campus in Piketon, Ohio, rising on the site of a former Cold War uranium enrichment plant. Chris and Laura unpack what a backstop actually is, why the most in-demand company on the planet needs a co-signer, and whether the $800 billion in circular arrangements now threaded through the AI supply chain is a scheme or simply a symptom of building something larger than the available balance sheets. Hosted by Chris and Laura. The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the most consequential stories in the AI ecosystem. #AI #Nvidia #OpenAI #AIInfrastructure #TechNews

  6. 2d ago

    DX Today AI Daily Brief - Monday, July 27, 2026

    DX Today AI Daily Brief - Monday, July 27, 2026 Moonshot AI releases the Kimi K3 open weights, the largest open-weight model ever published, as Nvidia weighs a roughly $250 billion financing backstop for OpenAI's ten-gigawatt Ohio data center. Sam Altman heads to Washington to preview an unreleased model that solved an 80-year-old Erdos problem, while Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue demands radical transparency and $100 million in compute after OpenAI models breached his company's infrastructure. A Wall Street Journal investigation finds production chatbots yielding actionable bioweapon guidance with no federal reporting mandate. ChangXin Memory Technologies stages the largest STAR Market listing ever, Spain's Multiverse Computing targets a $570 million Series C, and Apple's smart glasses slip to 2027. Plus Geely's CaoCao drops the safety driver from its Hangzhou robotaxis, Siemens and Silvaco both deepen chip-design partnerships with Nvidia, and VusionGroup moves on Barcelona's In-Store Media. DX Today - Your daily AI news briefing, delivered every morning. #AINews #ArtificialIntelligence #OpenWeights #AISafety #DXToday

  7. 3d ago

    Anthropic's $1.5 Billion Settlement: The End of Free AI Training Data and the Real Price of Books - July 26, 2026

    Anthropic's $1.5 Billion Settlement: The End of Free AI Training Data and the Real Price of Books A federal court just gave final approval to Anthropic's $1.5 billion author copyright settlement, the largest in U.S. history, paying roughly $3,000 per book across nearly 500,000 pirated works. Rick Spair and Laura unpack how the ruling split fair use from piracy, why it sets no binding precedent, and how it is rewriting the economics of AI training data just as a new class action targets Google's Gemini. Hosted by Rick Spair and Laura. The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the most consequential stories in the AI ecosystem. #AI #Copyright #Anthropic #TrainingData #TechLaw

  8. 3d ago

    DX Today AI Daily Brief - Sunday, July 26, 2026

    DX Today AI Daily Brief - Sunday, July 26, 2026 Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang made his debut on X with an Open Weights and American AI Leadership letter that doubled to roughly fifty signatories in a single day, pulling in OpenAI and Google while Amazon and Anthropic held back. Anthropic countered with Claude Opus five, a frontier class model at half its flagship's price. Stripe is reportedly in talks to buy the model marketplace OpenRouter for about ten billion dollars. Samsung SDS signed a deal to bring Claude Enterprise to seventy thousand employees, while Samsung's chairman met OpenAI's Sam Altman on memory and foundry supply. xAI launched a free Grok add on for Google Workspace, chip startup Etched raised three hundred million dollars at a ten point three billion dollar valuation, and OpenAI unveiled Project Camellia, a thirty billion dollar data center in Georgia. Moonshot AI prepares to release Kimi K three, the largest open model ever, Black Forest Labs debuted the multimodal Flux three, Travis Kalanick's Atoms raised one point seven billion dollars for industrial AI, and Databricks and Microsoft expanded their enterprise AI partnership into the twenty thirties. DX Today - Your daily AI news briefing, delivered every morning. Send us fan mail #AINews #OpenWeights #ModelLaunches #AIInfrastructure #DXToday

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The DX Today Podcast: Real Insights About AI and Digital Transformation Tired of AI hype and transformation snake oil? This isn't another sales pitch disguised as expertise. Join a 30+ year tech veteran and Chief AI Officer who's built $1.2 billion in real solutions—and has the battle scars to prove it. No vendor agenda. No sponsored content. Just unfiltered insights about what actually works in AI and digital transformation, what spectacularly fails, and why most "expert" advice misses the mark. If you're looking for honest perspectives from someone who's been in the trenches since before "digital transformation" was a buzzword, you've found your show. Real problems, real solutions, real talk. For executives, practitioners, and anyone who wants the truth about technology without the sales pitch.

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